Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] virtio: remove explicit pci ids from virtio_pci.c

2008-01-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Rusty Russell wrote: > Qumranet let us use their PCI vendor ID, with device ids >= 0x1000. > We can specify that we accept all of them in the device ID table, and > then return -ENODEV in the probe routine. > I thought the device id range was smaller. Avi? Regards, Anthony Liguori > modprob

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH]Add TR insert/purge interface for add-on component

2008-01-20 Thread Xu, Anthony
Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:18:03AM +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: >> Hi Avi/Tony, >> This patch adds the TR insert/purge interface for add-on >> components. > > In my world, TR stands for Token Ring. Nowhere in this patch do you > explain what TR means to you! Sorry for

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH]Add TR insert/purge interface for add-on component

2008-01-20 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:18:03AM +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: > > Hi Avi/Tony, > > This patch adds the TR insert/purge interface for add-on > > components. > > In my world, TR stands for Token Ring. Nowhere in this patch do you > explain what TR means to you! may be, TR is Tlb Register. see

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH]Add TR insert/purge interface for add-on component

2008-01-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:18:03AM +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: > Hi Avi/Tony, > This patch adds the TR insert/purge interface for add-on > components. In my world, TR stands for Token Ring. Nowhere in this patch do you explain what TR means to you! -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... the

[kvm-devel] [PATCH]Add TR insert/purge interface for add-on component

2008-01-20 Thread Xu, Anthony
Hi Avi/Tony, This patch adds the TR insert/purge interface for add-on components. TR insert/purge can only been executed by TR mapped code, while module code is mapped by TC, So module can not execute TR insert/purge. This patch let modules execute TR insert/purge. In the meantime, this

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] virtio: remove explicit pci ids from virtio_pci.c

2008-01-20 Thread Rusty Russell
Qumranet let us use their PCI vendor ID, with device ids >= 0x1000. We can specify that we accept all of them in the device ID table, and then return -ENODEV in the probe routine. modprobe will load all the modules which match a given alias so we might be loaded when we're not needed, but that's t

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Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present

2008-01-20 Thread Filip Navara
On Jan 20, 2008 5:53 PM, Alexander Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Filip Navara wrote: > > The specific VMware backdoor call isn't implemented, but the framework is > there and it wouldn't be hard to add support for it. The BIOS can fallback > to some "reasonable"

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present

2008-01-20 Thread Alexander Graf
On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Filip Navara wrote: The specific VMware backdoor call isn't implemented, but the framework is there and it wouldn't be hard to add support for it. The BIOS can fallback to some "reasonable" value if the backdoor isn't available. +memset(bios_uuid, 0

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present

2008-01-20 Thread Filip Navara
The specific VMware backdoor call isn't implemented, but the framework is there and it wouldn't be hard to add support for it. The BIOS can fallback to some "reasonable" value if the backdoor isn't available. Best regards, Filip Navara On Jan 20, 2008 5:20 PM, Alexander Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present

2008-01-20 Thread Alexander Graf
On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Filip Navara wrote: > Hello, > > attached is a patch that implements the SMBIOS within the Bochs BIOS > code. Complete list of changes: > > - Added generation of SSDT ACPI table that contains definitions for > available processors. > - Added basic implementation o

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] add acpi powerbutton support

2008-01-20 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Jan, On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:40:06PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > What about additionally listening on signals? If you run qemu from the > console, you can then just press ctrl-c to shut the guest down (instead Catching ctrl-c sounds like a good idea but "ctrl-c, ctrl-c" should probably kill

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] fill cpuid with clocksource information

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > In this patch, we probe the host checking for clocksource capabilities. > In case it is found, it is advertised to the guest through the appropriate > cpuid mechanism > > Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > qemu/qemu-kvm-x86.c |

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] kvmclock - the host part.

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > + > +struct wall_clock { > + uint32_t wc_version; > + uint32_t wc_sec; > + uint32_t wc_nsec; > +}; > + > kvm_wall_clock? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] kvmclock - the host part.

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > This is the host part of kvm clocksource implementation. As it does > not include clockevents, it is a fairly simple implementation. We > only have to register a per-vcpu area, and start writting to it periodically. > > The area is binary compatible with xen, as w

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM swapping with mmu notifiers

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:57:03PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> It's the same hva for two different gpas. Same functionality as the alias, >> but with less data structures. >> > > Ok but if this is already supposed to work, then I need to at least > change kvm_h

Re: [kvm-devel] qemu_mutex deadlock with -smp 2

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:13:40PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:07:46PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> >>> Are you using qcow? If so, this may be the recently-committed smp aio >>> deadlock fix. See 6bcdef5c1157bd7b526491252d20f80

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] fix VMX TSC synchronicity

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Avi, do you understand why C3 was causing the Windows SMP problems ? > > It may be that the latency was advertised as so low that Windows switched into C3 and back too often. Also, the problem possibly wasn't SMP related but rather TPR related -- when the idle loop c

[kvm-devel] KVM crashes when selecting a higher resolution than the host resolution in full screen

2008-01-20 Thread Pelle
When selecting a resolution higher than the current host resolution and switching to full screen (or booting with -full-screen) kvm crashes with the message: Could not open SDL display KVM is started with -std-vga -no-kvm crashes in the same way, but if I rember correctly this only happend afte

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 2] Define and use CONFIG_KVM_HAS_PIO so that we don't need pio_data in kvm_arch_vcpu

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Hollis Blanchard wrote: > # HG changeset patch > # User Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # Date 1200434310 21600 > # Node ID 7fa5947a2da8c0c7424ebdcfaebcae624d6cf015 > # Parent ee0c227fe3f6632f4b1b5fde3f7e05c8ea0a4378 > > Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: C

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] add more regs to kvm_show_regs for powerpc

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > Resend ppc patches neither rejected, commented nor accepted yet > > Subject: [PATCH][RESEND] add more regs to kvm_show_regs for powerpc > From: Christian Ehrhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This adds some registers useful for guest debugging to the powerpc code for > kvm_s

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: > Will Trives wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This patch : >> >> kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset >> >> Applied 15th Jan 2008 looks to kill I/O performance for me. As soon as I >> revert it my VMs are much faster. I don't really use SMP for my guests, >> perhaps this patch made uni

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset

2008-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Will Trives wrote: > Hello, > > This patch : > > kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset > > Applied 15th Jan 2008 looks to kill I/O performance for me. As soon as I > revert it my VMs are much faster. I don't really use SMP for my guests, > perhaps this patch made uniprocessor VMs slower ? > > >